Cinematic Era: 1925 Vintage

The Untouched Woman (German: Die unberührte Frau) is a 1925 German silent film directed by Constantin J. David and starring Mary Nolan, Tamara Geva, and Alf Blütecher.

Alice and her cat are driving along the coast when they accidentally ride off a cliff and into the ocean. They trick a fish into towing them along until a storm hits and they are swept away to the Cannibal Islands, where they are pursued aggressively by the locals.

A documentary with 65 intertitles about life and work at Oberlin House, a home for deafblind people in Nowawes near Potsdam.

In Red Gulch Tom is married to Nell and has a daughter. He is shot by cardsharp Jim, who runs off with Nell. The little daughter, found wandering on the prairie by two wolf hunters, is adopted and named Prairie Nell. Fifteen years later, she is the pride of Bar X, when Tom returns, shoots Jim, and finds his daughter.

A wealthy man who acquires a mind-reading machine is soon horrified to discover what people are really thinking.

Pelle Frisk is second-in-command on the S/S Hispania. He is a fighter and a ladies man and known as "The Flying Dutchman".

A silent fantasy film centered on the court of the god Indra. Based on Agha Hasan Lakhnavi's play Indrasabha

Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow.

Accompany a couple on their visit to a local wildlife park.

Åke Hjelm and Wilhelm Holt run a business together. Hjelm is honest and fair, but Holt takes every opportunity to gain some easy money – legal or not.

Julius goes rabbit hunting while Alice goes bear hunting. Alice and her cat learn at their own expense that one shouldn't bother animals, whether those be rabbits or bears.

A former Yale student returns to the land where his Spanish forefathers once reigned supreme and lives in the Mexican hills, occasionally riding into border towns, where he takes the law into his own hands and protects the weak from crooked elements. Known as Quemado, he prevents the marriage of a girl to a notorious desperado and meets Joanna Thatcher, an eastern girl to whom he makes the promise that she will someday come to love him. Joan becomes engaged to Gretorix, unwilling to admit to herself that she has become infatuated with the daring horseman. On Joan's wedding day, Quemado kidnaps her, forces her to admit that she loves him, and arranges to be wed by a parson on horseback as they ride furiously into the hills to avoid the pursuit of the angry Gretorix.

Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework. Circumstances cause Mrs. Jump to suspect that Mr. Jump is cavorting with the new maid.

A Lord objects to his son's love for a bastard until a society doctor is revealed as her father.

An opening section of heavy handed humour about boxing styles gives way to a genuine and extraordinary discovery in this silent curio.

In this 1925 Out of the Inkwell short, Ko-Ko the Clown becomes a barber. As usual, he eventually escapes the animated world for the "real." He hides in a shaving mug and when Max tries to lather up.

Lightnin' the German Shepherd dog strikes!

Japanese silent film from 1925 featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Bill Lawson (Eddie O'Reilly), a wharf labourer, loses his job and decides to go out bush to find work to support his wife Elsa (Stella Southern) and daughter Betty. He befriends a well-born Englishman, Kenneth Hillyard (Rawdon Blandford) after rescuing him from two thugs and the two decide to go prospecting together.

When the son of the owner of a woollen mill learns of the plight of the starving Jews in Russia he sets about raising money to ease their suffering. After raising $100,000, he plans to travel to Russia but is dismayed to find that his father wants him to return with the Russian girl found for him by a professional matchmaker.

In 1925 what may have been the first cycling film was made, Le Roi de la Pédale starring the popular comedy actor Biscot, and with scenes shot on the Tour de France and also with Henri Decoin as a screenwriter.

The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspected of being the devil.

A Lady tries to win the Derby by burning a trainer's stables.

A silent documentary that depicts Recife’s urban development projects in the 1920s and the progress of Pernambuco, with particular emphasis on the construction of Recife’s new wharf.

An indigenous laborer takes revenge against the abuse from his landowner.

COMEDY; featuring kids' gang and a home-made railway. After a fat boy is served with soup doctored with plaster of Paris by two black youngsters, his teeth have to be prised apart. The fat boy is driver of a makeshift locomotive running on lines made from a stolen fence, whose owner, a black woman, complains to the police. Members of the kids' gang attempt to derail the locomtive, and a fight ensues. The intervention of the police brings a temporary respite, but the locomotive and its occupants escape by driving through a fence.

Albert Engström paints a portrait of one of his friends at his studio in Grisslehamn and listen to stories from the archipelago.

Two musicians, Pat and Patachon, arrive in a peaceful little town. When they are about to be arrested because noise is not tolerated on the streets, a young solicitor helps them out of trouble and subsequently finds them jobs with an elderly laundrywoman. The town’s wealthy men are content with their quiet community and refuse to listen to the solicitor’s proposals for improvements and new initiatives to help everyone make money. However, with the help of Pat and Patachon, the solicitor cleverly persuades the men to change their minds. Soon, life flourishes in the little town, and Pat and Patachon are celebrated as its saviours. (Stumfilm.dk)

A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid father and then feels the call of youth and falls desperately in love with a young man.

Max creates a penny arcade with a shooting gallery, much to the detriment of Ko-Ko and Fitz the Dog.

While on an excursion in the mountains, aging natural scientist, Professor Karker, discovers an idyllic valley. Here, he meets a farmer’s wife, Aase, and her two adult children: the kind-hearted Kavli and his sister Kari, who is a breath of fresh air. Back home, Karker sends his own two spoiled and self-indulgent representatives of modern youth, Thor and Synnøve, on a re-education trip to visit his new friends in Sunshine Valley. (Stumfilm.dk)

Jørgen wants to propose to Marie as soon as he has been promoted and can offer her a proper home. Indeed, his future looks promising until his father, who is a bookkeeper in the town bank, tells Jørgen that he has embezzled and spent money from the bank. In order to uphold his father’s honour, Jørgen must raise the missing amount, and the only one he knows with that much ready money is his uncle, the canny merchant Ole Konge, whom his father detests. Ole Konge will only help if Jørgen marries his daughter Amalie, who has long pined for her cousin from afar. Sacrificing his own happiness for the sake of his family, Jørgen enters into a loveless marriage. He thinks about Marie every day until a dramatic incident makes him see Amalie in a new light. (Stumfilm.dk)

A 1925 silent comedy.

Kaleidoscope is an unusual abstract film, the result of optical experiments performed by Loyd A. Jones, Head of Kodak Research Laboratories’ Physics Department. Jones combined the principle of the kaleidoscope with Kodachrome, creating what he describes as “dynamic designs of extraordinary beauty and symmetry.”

Cowboy Jack Horton searches for the killer of his father and brother, both of whom were found with an ace of clubs pinned to their bodies.

A policeman falls for a teacher, and befriends her students. A gang of bootleggers threatens his newfound joys.

A wintry Watford High Street buzzes with busy shoppers.

The Haunted Honeymoon is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey with Janet Gaynor in one of her first films. One of the first comedies to parody horror films, it was produced by Hal Roach and released by Pathé Exchange.

Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.

Talented boxer Benny Leonard suffers a series of personal and professional setbacks and must find the inner strength and physical discipline to return to the ring to reclaim his title and prove his worth to his skeptics and his love interest, Helen.

A Mutt and Jeff short.

A promotional short film made by Stoll Film Company to select an actress to appear in one of their feature films.

Alice, Julius, and one other character are in a combined auto/horse race. Julius gets off to a bad start when his car takes off, without him, in the wrong direction; it takes him a while to get it straightened out. Alice and the bad guy battle a bit for the lead, which Alice takes; they pass a detour, which the bad guy changes the sign for. Julius, taking the bad road, eventually drives up a cliff and, after a mighty struggle at the top, makes it, in third place, to the changeover. Alice and the bad guy ride off on horses; Julius has a wind-up wooden horse. Julius' horse keeps breaking down, eventually losing the back legs (Julius uses an empty thought balloon to hold up the rear). Alice's horse jumps a fence, and won't continue. The bad guy looks like he'll win, but Alice makes a mighty leap and knocks him off to win the race

When a Native American artist sells a selection of his background drawings and original characters to Fleischer, Koko gives the new arrivals a cold reception.

Illustration of the ballad of the same name by Karel Jaromír Erben.

Lacking patients, Dr. Sumner sets himself up as a psychologist and opens a sanitarium, becoming quite successful. Virginia Zelva, a clairvoyant who wants to get into what she regards as a racket, signs on as his nurse. Sumner falls in love with Virginia and, after numerous complications, wins her for his bride.

Rare theatrical promo for the Christmas Seals charity, showing the busy daily routine of an urban everyman and offering the health wisdom of eight hours of sleep each night.